# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1998_S359
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THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS

BIBLICAL REVELATION and
INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE

A Report of the Commission on Theology and Church Relations
of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod

February 1998

CONTENTS

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A. Basis of Concern

B. Revelation

1, Language about God
A. Personal Identity of God..
1. God Transcends Biological and GenderCategories.
The Names of God ..

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3. Biblical Metaphors Concerning God
4. God as “Father”

5. Language Concerning the Holy Spirit

B. Feminine Imagery: Controverted Texts
C. Theological Implications.

Ill. Language about Christ

IV. Language Concerning Christians and People in General
A. Use of Words Not in the Biblical Text
. “Man” as Person or Christian
. Use of Impersonal Pronouns
. Indefinite Constructions
. References to “Brother”

, Christians as “Children”

Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1946,
1952, © 1971, 1973. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted
© 1999 Used by permission.

The quotations from the Lutheran Confessions in this publication are from The Book of Concent:
The Confessions of the Evarigetical Luther Church, edited by Theodore G, Tappert, copyright ©
1959 Fortress Press. Used by permission of Augsburg Fortress.

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